I was basically trying to help my friend enable Secure Boot in order to play Battlefield 6. Long story short, we got close to actually enabling it but I messed up with a crucial step that ultimately led to me bricking his motherboard.
The PC basically got stuck in a boot loop with no display.
I take full responsibility as my friend was only acting through my words.
Did an almost-barebones Q-Flash in order to restore BIOS settings to default and was able to get it back up and running with the latest BIOS.
This was basically my OLD PC that I gave to him as a thank you. It was from a CyberpowerPC pre-built but with some upgrades. No GPU, PSU, or M.2.
Now:
– GIGABYTE B550 UD AC
– Ryzen 7 5700X (All Cores -30)
– DeepCool LS520SE
– RTX 2060 Super 8GB (OC + UV | 950mV + 1950MHz/7500MHz)
– DDR4 32GB 3200MT/s CL16
– 1TB M.2 Gen4x4
– Segotep 750W Fully-Modular 750W PSU
– ATX Case w/ 4 fans
– BIOS version: F5f (June 2025)
– GPU Driver version: 580.88